Thursday, October 11, 2018

October 11


I gave you a work period to read Chapter 6 and work on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Tuesday. Please remember that you are writing the first paragraph of the Unit 1 WRA II Essay tomorrow. Please make sure that you check out the sample essays on the wiki (don't repeat/copy evidence from those sample essays). Please go directly to Room 104 tomorrow. You'll finish the essay on Monday.


You wrote an analysis of a political cartoon today in class, and then we talked about democratic socialism and a case study of Sweden. We'll be looking at the Netherlands and Norway tomorrow. On Tuesday, October 16th you'll be writing the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test, please check out the study guide below.


This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Tuesday, October 16th

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations: 
  • "The Development of Classical Liberalism"
  • "Responding to Classical Liberalism"

2. Be familiar with key concepts introduced in Chapters 3 and 4.
3. The Industrial Revolution:
  • understand fundamental economic, social and political changes that were caused by the Industrial Revolution
  • understand the connection between the Agricultural Revolution and the Enclosure Acts and the Industrial Revolution
  • understand the differences, advantages and disadvantages of the cottage system and the factory system
4. Key beliefs of the various ideologies (review the spectrums briefly); also review this material from the "Responding to Classical Liberalism" PowerPoint presentation:
  • Adam Smith
  • laissez faire economics/capitalism (key ideas)
  • John Stuart Mill
  • Karl Marx (key ideas and beliefs associated with Marx, Das KapitalThe Communist Manifesto, withering away of the state, dictatorship of the proletariat, view of history, etc. ) and Friedrich Engels 
  • Edmund Burke and classical conservatism
5. Some questions may require you to make connections between this year's material and what you learned in 10-1 and 20-1 as well 






I continued the lecture on "The French Revolution" today. I should be able to finish this lecture off tomorrow. Make sure that you print off the glossary of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age from the wiki and add it to your notes.


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